Using Stable Isotope Mixing in a Great Lakes Coastal Tributary to Determine Food Web Linkages in Young Fishes

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1391-1405

  Hoffman, Joel C ^a   Peterson, Gregory S ^a   Cotter, Anne M ^a   Kelly, John R ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Lake Superior; St. Louis River; Trophic

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; FISH; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NURSERY GROUND; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSITION ZONE; TRIBUTARY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WATERSHED; YOUNG POPULATION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; MINNESOTA; SAINT LOUIS RIVER; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA; PISCES;

EID: 77957672243     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9295-0     Document Type: Article

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